Research Profile
Dr Scott Orford
Selected Publications
Orford, S. (2010) Towards a data-rich infrastructure for housing market research: deriving floor area estimates for individual properties from secondary data sources. Environment and Planning B, 37. pp. 248-264.
Orford, S. Rallings C., Thrasher M. and Borisyuk, G. (2009) Electoral Salience and the Costs of Voting at National, Sub-National and Supra-National Elections in the UK: a case study of Brent, UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34. pp. 195-214.
Orford, S., Rallings C., Thrasher M. and Borisyuk, G. (2008) Investigating differences in electoral turnout: the influence of ward level context on participation in local and parliamentary elections in Britain. Environment and Planning A.
Orford, S. and Radcliffe, J. (2007) Modelling UK residential dwelling types using OS Mastermap data: A comparison to the 2001 census. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 31(2). pp. 206-227.
Orford, S. (2002) Valuing locational externalities: A GIS and multilevel modelling approach. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 29(1). pp. 105-127.
Other Publications
Books
Orford, S. (1999) Valuing the Built Environment: GIS and House Price Analysis. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Papers in Journals
Fry, R., Berry, R., Higgs, G., Orford, S., Jones, S. (2012) The WISERD GeoPortal: A tool for the discovery, analysis and visualization of socio-economic (meta-) data for Wales, Transactions in GIS, 16, 2, pp. 105-124 doi:10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01308.x.
Orford, S. Rallings C., Thrasher M. and Borisyuk, G. (2011) Changes in the probability of voter turnout when re-siting polling stations: a case study in Brent, UK, Environment and Planning C, Government and Policy, 29, pp. 149-169, doi:10.1068/c1013r.
Orford, S. and Jones, S. (2010) Mapping Welsh neighbourhood types classified using attitudinal data from the national Living in Wales survey. Journal of Maps. pp. 186-193.
Berry, R., Fry, R., Higgs, G., Orford, S. (2010) Building a geo-portal for enhancing collaborative socio-economic research in Wales using open-source technology. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2.1. pp. 78-92.
Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Shaw, M., Orford, S., Davey Smith, G., (2005): Inequalities and Christmas yet to come. British Medical Journal, 331 Dec. pp. 1409.
Orford, S. (2004) Identifying and comparing changes in the spatial concentrations of urban poverty and affluence: a case study of inner London. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 28, pp. 701-717.
Orford, S., Dorling, D., Mitchel, R. Shaw, M., & Davey Smith, G. (2002) Life and death of the people of London: A historical GIS of Charles Booth’s inquiry. Health and Place, 8(1). pp. 25-35.
Orford, S. (2000) Modelling spatial structures in local housing market dynamics: A multi-level perspective. Urban Studies, 37(9). pp. 1643-1671.
Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Shaw, M., Orford, S., Davey-Smith, G. (2000) The Ghost of Christmas Past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991. British Medical Journal, 321. pp. 1547-1551.
Hardy, R. Bamber, J. and Orford, S. (2000) The Delineation of Drainage Basins on the Greenland Ice Sheet using a Combined Modelling and GIS Approach. Hydrological Processes, 14(11), pp. 1931-1941.
Shaw, M., Orford S., Brimblecombe N. and D. Dorling (2000) Widening inequality in mortality between 160 regions of 15 countries of the European Union. Social Science and Medicine, 50. pp. 1047-1058.
Orford, S., Harris., R and Dorling., D. (1999): Geography: Information Visualization in the Social Sciences. Social Science Computer Review, 17.3. pp. 289-304.
Book Chapters
Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Orford, S., Shaw, M., and Tunstall, H. (2009). Health Inequalities. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 46–50. Oxford: Elsevier.
Orford, S. (2008) Visualization through high resolution aerial photography in planning related property research in (eds.) M. Dodge, M. McDerby, & M. Turner, Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications, Wiley, Chichester. Chapter 7 pp. 141-158.
Orford, S., (2005): Cartography and Visualization, in (eds) Castree, N. Rogers, A., Sherman, D., Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates, Blackwell, pp. 189-205.
Orford, S. (2005): Charles Booth – yesterday once more? in (eds) Harris, R., Sleight, P., & Webber, R., Geodemographics, GIS and Neighbourhood Targeting, Wiley, pp 45-48.
Orford, S., Dorling, D., & Harris, R., (2003): Cartography and Visualization in (eds) Alisdair Rogers and Heather Viles, The Student’s Companion to Geography, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2nd Edition pp. 151-156.
Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Shaw, M., Orford, S., Davey Smith, G., (2003): The Ghost of Christmas Past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991, in (ed.) G. Davey Smith, Health inequalities: lifecourse approaches, Policy press. Bristol. UK. Re-printed. 399-410.
Orford, S. & Schuman, A. (2002): Micro-Geography and Socialization: New ways of Investigating the Turnout Problem, in (eds) Lynn Bennie, Colin Rallings, Jonathan Tonge and Paul Webb, British Elections & Parties Review, Vol. 12, The 2001 General Election. Frank Cass, London, UK. pp.190-205.
Orford, S. & Schuman, A. (2002): The Spatial Analysis of UK Local Electoral Behaviour: turnout in a Bristol ward in (eds) David B. Kidner, Gary Higgs and Sean White Innovations in GIS 9: Socio-economic Applications, Taylor and Francis, London UK. pp. 243-257.
Research Reports
Young People and Housing Challenges and Solutions for 2020, with Clapham, D., Buckley K., Mackie, P., Thomas, I., Atherton, I., and McAnulty, U., (2012), Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme paper: Young people and housing.
The National Assembly for Wales Elections of 2011: Report to the Electoral Commission, Commissioned by the Electoral Commission, 2011.
A user survey to inform the future development of UKBORDERS 2011-2016: report and recommendations with Sam Jones, Commissioned by EDINA at Edinburgh University, 2011.
Spatial inequalities within marginalised groups, with Higgs G., in An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales, a report prepared on behalf of the Wales Equality and Human Rights Commission, by Davies, R., et al, (eds) WISERD, commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2011.
Young people and housing in 2020: identifying key drivers for change, with Clapham, D., Buckley K., Mackie, P., Thomas, I., (2010), Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme paper: Young people and housing
Evaluation of the 2006-2011 Census Programme: Final Report for the Economic and Social Research Council with Drinkwater, S., Davies, R., and Jones, S. 2010, Commissioned by the ESRC, 2010
Working Paper 91: Social Science Quantitative Methods Capacity Building in Wales: ESRC/HEFCW Scoping Study with Moore, L., Lynch, R., Maio, G., Moore, G., Robinson, A., Taylor, C., and Whitfield, K. 2007.
The Role of the Housing System in Rural Wales, a final report for the Social Justice and Regeneration Division of the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff with Milbourne, P. Edwards, B. and Hughes, R. 2005.
Age Balanced Communities in Rural Wales, a final report to the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff with Newidiem and Menter a Business. 2003.
Review of Visualization in the Social Sciences: A State of the Art Survey and Report Advisory Group on Computer Graphics Technical Report Series No. 41., with Dorling, D. and Harris, R. 1998.